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Police Seek Man Who Ran Out Of Kohl’s Store With Sneakers Stuffed Down Pants
(C x 2)Here at Consumerist, we’re fascinated with the various things that shoplifters have removed from stores by shoving them down their pants. We’ve seen people accused of using this method to steal...
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Two Women Steal Merchandise Worth $7,000 In 1-Minute Sunglass Heist
How long does it take to scoop up $7,000 worth of merchandise from a Sunglass Hut store while employees aren’t looking? According to this surveillance video released by the police in San Francisco,...
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Uber Driver Arrested, Accused Of Raping 16-Year-Old Passenger
Uber says that it puts all new drivers through checks of their criminal and driving history, and none of what happened in a Boston suburb should have taken place. The prosecutor in Malden, MA says that...
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Walmart Worker Accused Of Setting Multiple Fires Inside The Same Store
Things got a bit heated at a Walmart in Massachusetts recently, after a employee allegedly set three fires inside the store. Police responded to the store around 5:25 p.m. on Tuesday after a report of...
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Who Am I Supposed To Call When My Credit Card Info Is Stolen?
You just found out your credit or debit card info has been used by someone else to make a fraudulent purchase. There are so many different people you can call, each involved in some aspect of this...
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Police: Miami Uber Driver Admitted He Sexually Assaulted Incapacitated Passenger
Police in Miami say an Uber driver has admitted to sexually battering a female customer while she was incapacitated after a night of drinking. According to the arrest affidavit cited by WSVN, the...
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Police: KFC Worker Pulls Gun On Boss, Returns For Paycheck The Next Day
A dispute between an employee of a New Mexico KFC and his boss escalated to the point of pulling out weapons, but that didn’t stop the aggrieved worker from showing up the next day to collect his...
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Uber Driver Charged With Raping Unconscious Teenage Passenger
An Uber driver in Laguna Beach, CA has been arrested and charged with raping an unconscious 17-year-old passenger in the back seat of his car. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said the...
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Bank Robbery Suspect Caught Eating Lunch Joins Long List Of Accused Criminals...
Sometimes, it doesn’t take an exhaustive manhunt or an intense investigation to catch an accused criminal. Sometimes, like in the case of a robbery suspect who was nabbed after he stopped nearby to...
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Ringleader Of Canada’s Multimillion-Dollar Maple Syrup Heist Found Guilty
It’s been four years since our neighbors to the north were rocked by the theft of millions of dollars worth of maple syrup from Canada’s global strategic maple syrup reserve. Authorities recovered the...
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FCC: Don’t Be Fooled By Callers Posing As Utility Employees Demanding Payment
We’ve heard about scammers who call up consumers and pretend to be utility company workers, demanding immediate payment. And as we head into the winter, when many people might be endangered by an...
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Guy Steals Credit Card, Uses It To Buy Home Security Camera To Ward Off Thieves
Police in Colorado say they’re on the lookout for a man accused of using a stolen credit card to purchase a home security system, which, is of course useful when trying to keep people from stealing...
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Thief With Impeccable Timing Grabs Bucket Of Gold Flakes Worth $1.6M From...
He only had about 20 seconds of distraction, but that’s all it took for one thief to walk off with about $1.6 million worth of gold flakes on a busy New York City street. Surveillance video obtained by...
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Foxconn Employee Accused Of Stealing & Reselling 5,700 iPhones
This sounds like something from a TV episode, or maybe even a novel or film: an employee who works with sensitive, high-value technology manages to sneak test units out of the job for years and sell...
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No Pizza Is Worth Crawling Through Ventilation Duct To Steal
Listen, I get it. Pizza is delicious, and you may be tempted to go to extremes to be near it. But it is not a good idea to crawl through a pizzeria’s ventilation system in an effort to burgle the...
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Couple Claims Car Dealership Employee Stole Intimate Photos, Sent Them To...
The thing about private photos is that they’re supposed to be just that: private. But a couple in Texas says not only did a car dealership employee swipe intimate photos from one of their phones, he...
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UPS Driver Helps Save Woman Held Captive After Spotting Note On A Package
A woman who was allegedly being abused and kept captive in her home by her husband was rescued this week when an observant UPS driver noticed the plea for help she’d scrawled on a package waiting to be...
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Police: Fake Dentist Made House Calls To Pull Teeth, Provide Dentures
Listen: if the dentist says he doesn’t mind dropping by your house to pull a few teeth, you might want to double check and make sure he’s a real dentist before you open wide. Police in Manatee, FL, say...
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Store Says FedEx Allowed Homeless Man To Sign For Delivery He Then Stole
It’s always upsetting when someone steals your packages after they’ve been delivered, but it’s even more of a bummer when the company doing the deliveries apparently puts that package into the hands of...
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Minnesota Cities Claim Walmart Is Using Local Police As Unpaid Security Guards
Across the country, local governments are speaking out about how their police departments are subsidizing security at their local Walmart stores, with officers dispatched there more often than...
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